The whole England/GB cheerleading coverage of any sport irritates me - from Sky F1/BBC/Channel 4 fawning over Lewis Hamilton, to every minute of a major football tournament being framed from the perspective of “our boys” and yes - the GB bias in athletics.

That said, I’ll bet hardly any country covers a home hosted championship particularly differently. I don’t think it appearing “mean and colloquial” just because it’s at home is a particularly fair stick to beat the BBC with.

Yeah, I was thinking this. When you have sports competing as NATIONAL TEAMS I kind of think this is inevitable. There will always be a focus on British sports people from British based broadcasters for any sport (with the situation the same in any other country), but it’s ramped up massively when they are wearing an England/British vest/shirt/whatever

I find it far more irksome when, for instance, Sky/BBC/BT whoever expect us to get behind a football team in European competition because they’re ENGLISH.